The Yazīd inscription is an early Christian Paleo-Arabic rock carving from the region of as-Samrūnīyyāt, 12 km southeast of Qasr Burqu' in the northeastern Jordan.
It was discovered by Jordanian epigraphists during in the first season of the El-Khḍerī archaeological and epigraphic survey project and published in 2017. It consists of only four words and a Christian cross. Notably, it mentions a certain figure known as "Yazīd the king" (yzydw ʾl-mlk), who is most likely the Umayyad ruler Yazid I.[1]
The Yazīdinscription is an early Christian Paleo-Arabic rock carving from the region of as-Samrūnīyyāt, 12 km southeast of Qasr Burqu' in the northeastern...
Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic: يزيد بن معاوية بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya ibn ʾAbī Sufyān; c. 646 – 11 November 683), commonly...
fledged system of dotting. A Christian Arabic inscription, known as the Yazidinscription, possibly mentions Yazid I and is notable for its continuation of...
Yazid ibn al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik (Arabic: يزيد بن الوليد بن عبد الملك, romanized: Yazīd ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik; 701 – 3/4 October 744), commonly...
Islamic-era inscription of Yazīd. This inscription is similar to two other sixth-century Paleo-Arabic inscriptions, those being the Harran inscription located...
ibn al-Jarrah died in 639, he appointed Yazid governor of Syria's Damascus, Palestine and Jordan districts. Yazid died shortly after and Umar appointed...
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz and succession of his cousin Yazid II on 4th February 720. 724: Death of caliph Yazid II and he was succeeded by his brother and nominated...
project were Raja ibn Haywa, Yazid ibn Salam, and the latter's son Baha. Raja was a Muslim theologian and native of Beisan, and Yazid and Baha were mawali (non-Arab...
Heritage Organization. In some texts this place is called Burj Khalifa Yazid. According to some experts' ideas, this tower is like a clock pointer and...
courts of the first Umayyad caliphs Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan (r. 661–680) and Yazid I (r. 680–683). With the strong presence of the Himyarite elite and South...
around 55%, and Sunnis around 40%. The remainder follow Christianity, Yazidism, Mandaeism and Yarsanism. The religious development of Mesopotamia and...
city of Kairouan in Tunisia, and withdraws to Barca. November 14 – Caliph Yazid I dies at Damascus, after a 3-year reign marked by civil war. He is succeeded...
715 CE most of his captured territories were recaptured by Indian kings. Yazid II (720 to 724 CE) launched the third Umayyad expansion alongall the warring...
longest inscriptions preserved. The remaining ones are mostly single words or names on vessels and other artifacts. Only four Thracian inscriptions of any...
reign of Caliph Mu'awiya I, the latter's son and Hassan's cousin Yazid I, and Yazid's son Mu'awiya II) Rawh ibn Zinba al-Judhami (680–684, appointed by...
ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranic ethnic group. Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people and is monotheistic in nature...
and commemorates the suppression of a rebellion by the governor of Kinda, Yazid, and Sabaean and Himyarite princes, as well as the restoration of the Marib...
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